First Friday: Place/Holding

  • Friday, May 3
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM MT
  • 217 JOHNSON ST, SANTA FE, NM

Join us for extended hours at the Museum on First Friday and our Mobile Artist in Residence's exhibition 'Place/Holding.'

Join us for extended hours at the Museum on the First Friday of every month. Admission is free all day for New Mexico residents and free for everyone from 5 PM–7 PM. 

Enjoy a showing of Place/Holding, an exhibition by Brian Fleetwood (Muscogee Creek), the Museum’s first Mobile Artist in Residence. Place/Holding presents Fleetwood’s jewelry created by single-use plastics collected from different communities in the Musuem’s Art to G.O. truck. Stop by for a look at the exhibition inside the Axle Contemporary truck, enjoy music by Adrian Wall (Pueblo of Jemez), and refreshments! 

Read more about Place/Holding here. 

Place/Holding will open on April 19th in the Santa Fe Railyard Plaza. Place/Holding is presented by Art to G.O. and Axle Contemporary.

Photograph of a street and an adobe building with a tree on the left of the frame. Parked in front of the building and on the street are two trucks, one a grey mobile art gallery and one the Art to G.O. truck with cloud motifs on it and two tables in front.
Close-up photograph of a pair of hands holding a plastic mold over a table. On the table are small colorful plastic creations.
Photograph of the front of a grey mobile art gallery in the background and the front of the Art to G.O. truck in the foreground. Behind both trucks are leafy trees turning gold.
Axle Contemporary

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Be sure to enjoy openings, extended hours, and more at each stop down Palace Avenue. 

First Friday partners include:  

Patina Gallery
Victory Gallery
New Mexico Museum Foundation Shops
Owings Gallery on Palace
Hecho Gallery

Peyton Wright Galleries
New Mexico History Museum
Sorrel Sky Gallery
New Mexico Museum of Art

Upcoming Events

Photograph of a painting of a Ram's skull framed by large brown leaves against a white background. The paintings hands in a gallery with light blue walls. To the left, a person moves so they are blurred.

Past Event Talks

4/15

Mornings with O'Keeffe: Moments and Materials | Discovering Questions Posed by "Ram's Skull with Brown Leaves," 1936

Online

Wednesday, April 15

9:00am

Close-up of a young person's hands as they mould clay on a table covered with paint and other art materials.

Event Community Events

4/16

Create with O'Keeffe: Paint Your Own Garden Rock

SOUTHSIDE LIBRARY | 6599 JAGUAR DR, SANTA FE, NM 87507

Thursday, April 16

3:30pm

Photograph from above of a painting of a shell against a grey background with a green leaf above. Hovering over the painting is a hand with a small paintbrush. Nearby are paint tubes and brushes.

Event Classes

4/17

Online Class: All Things Textured in Gouache

Online

Friday, April 17

11:00am

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